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B. K. MOSOPOULOS.

FISHING NET. No.`326,139. l Patented Sept. l5, 1885.

` UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BASILIOS K. MOSCOPOULOS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

FISHING-NET.

SPECFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 326,139, dated September15, 1885.

- Application iled January Q3, 18F5. (No mode-l.)

.To all whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, BAsILros K. MosooroU- Los, ofthe city, county ,andState of NewYork, have invented a new and useful Improvement inFishing-Nets; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full andexact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a partof this speci- 1o lication.

My invention relates to compound shingnets or seines, and has for itsobject the construction of a net which shall be especially adapted forfishing in deep waters to catch :5 shes of all sizes both in lthe depthand at the surface. 1

Ordinarily the nets,when made with meshes small enough to catch and holdsmall sh,will not trap thelargerones. These last simply strike the net,and as their heads do not pass into its meshes, they are turned asidetherefrom without engagement therewith. Where the net is made openenough to catch these large fishes the smaller ones pass readily throughits meshes and escape.

A compound net has heretofore been made and patented, March 28, 1882,No. 255,671, for

the purpose of more effectually catching large fishes by placing a finegill-net centrally be- 3o` tween two outer coarser nets to form pocketson each side and re-enforce the central net; but sucha net is adaptedfor use in catching the large fish frequenting the deeper waters only,and if made long enough to extend from the 3 5 surface to the bottombecomes heavy and clumsy, and is impracticable.

My invention provid-es a net adapted for deep-water fishing, and whichis constructed to catch not only the large fish near the bottom, butalso the smallfish nearer the surface, and admits of being readily setand handled.

A in the drawing represents my improved net made throughout in thecustomary manner with ue meshes small enough to catch and hold thesmallest fishes which it is desired to secure. The iish swimming againstthe net pass their heads through its meshes and are caught therein bythe gills.

B B represent nets of large mesh, through which iishes of a size toolarge to become entangled in the ner net A may pass their heads t andbecome caught.' The net A is alone made of a depth or width sufiicientto extend from near the surface to near the bottom of the wad ter, whilethe outer coarser nets B B are secured therein on each side thereof toextend from its bottom edge upward for a third or a half only of itsentire width, as illustrated in the drawing.

In the use of the net the large fishes, which frequent the lower depths,strike against it, and find their advance barred by the central smallnetting, A. The ishinstinctively turns aside therefrom; but as, intouching the net, its head has passed through the larger mesh of theouter section, B, its gills are, as it turns,

at once caught by the net, and the sh isl surely entangled and madefast. The smaller sh found near the surface are caught by the finenet,and if lower down pass readily through the larger meshes B, so as tobe caught in the central net.

The one compound net `thus serves equally well for securing both largeand 'small sh without the disadvantage of being too heavy and cumbersomefor use in deep water,las would be the case with a net formed throughoutin three pieces.

I do not claim as new constructing a net in

